Separable garment-supporting button attachment.



' (Application filed Sept. 26, 1901.)

(No Model Inventor,

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" PATENT OFFICE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 705,476, dated July 22, 1902. Application filed September 26, 1901. Serial No. 76,658. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. STOWELL, a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovementsin Separable Garment-SupportingButton Attachments; and I do hereby'declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to means for sup porting nether undergarments, and has for its object to provide a button attachmentof simple, efficient,and cheap construction; and the invention consists in the construction herein described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a blank for forming the button attachment. Fig. 2 is a plan of a button modified to receive the attachment. Fig. 3 is a section showing the button and attachment united. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the attachment fixed to the lower edge of the button. Fig. 5 is.a similar view showing a modification of the attachment and its connection with the upper edge of a button. Fig. 6 shows a modified blank, and Fig. 7is a central section of a button with a support made from the modified blank.

Numeral 1 denotes a sheet-metal blank having an oblong opening 2 and an extension 3, the latter being designed to be bent or clenched upon a button. The openingis preferably made about two-thirds as wide as the button to which it is to be applied, so that they may be conveniently connected after the button is secured upon a garment by passing the sewed-on button through saidopening, and thus placing the device in its operative situationbefore fixing it to the button; but theimprovement is not limited to such relative dimensions.

4 denotes abutton having the'usual threadholes and a slot 5 to receive the extension 3, which beingpassed through the slot is bent down, and thereby secured, as indicated at 6 in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 4 the extension is shown clenched or secured to the edge of the button, the slot 5 being dispensed with.

The body of the attachment, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, has two bends or hooks G and 7, the first of which in use embraces the upper edge of a waistband and the second constitutes a hook to receive a tape fixed in any usual or convenient manner on a nether garment to be supported through the medium of the, improved attachment.

, Sidenotes an offset of the inner limb 9 of the-lhook 6,.which isvprovided in order that this part of the. attachment may be held closely to the button, so as not to interfere with its ordinary use for connection with a suspender or the like. For convenience of illustration the offset part is not shown in actual contact with the button, as it will by preference be in practice. This particular feature of coustructionnamely, the ofiset was first shown and described in an integral button and tape-hook patentedto me October 29,-190l,'said patent being numbered 685,307, and is not claimed herein except in this limitedconnection and on a button attachm ent capable of being detached, as hereinafter pointed out.

The forms so far described are intended for use with an exterior button.

In Fig. 5 is shown a modification suitable for usewith a button fixed to the interior'of a Waistband. In this case the device is attached to theupper edge of the button and the hook 6 dispensed with, as the attachment is not required to embrace the waistband.

The attachment can be first fixed on a button and the button subsequently fixed on a garment, or the device being supplied with an opening 2 can be passed over the button already secured to the garment and then fixed thereon in a suitable situation to receive a tape.

Instead of providing aslot 5 in the button (see Figs. 2 and 3) a slot 11 maybe provided in the attachment, as indicated in Figs. 6 and 7. The edge of the button can be passed through this slot and the metal of the attachment bent down in manner. toclaspthe button, as best shown in Fig.7, in which the end of the attachment extends to the concavity in the button. As represented in Fig. 5, the attachment simply clasps the upper part of the button. In Fig. 4 the connection is similar to that shown in Fig. 5; but the form of attachment suitable for connection with an outside button is illustrated and the attachment is fixed to the bottom of the button.

I am aware that nether-undergarment-supporting devices have been centrally applied between buttons and outer garments, to which the buttons were fastened. It is characteristic of the present improvement that the nether-undergarment-supporting device is fixed and in a detachable manner to or near to the periphery of the button and independently of the connection of the latter with the outer garment and that itis capable of being fixed to the button either before or after the latter is joined to the garment.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The detachable button attachment for supporting nether undergarments from an outer garment, said attachment having means for making connection directly with a button at the outer part of the latter and outside the connection of the button and said outer garment.

2. The detachable button attachment for supporting nether undergarments from an outer garment, said attachment having means for making connection directly with a button, and adapted for application to the button after the latter is fixed upon a garment.

3. The detachable button attachment for supporting nether undergarments from an outergarment, said attachment having an opening to receive the connection of the button and garment and having means distinct from said opening for making connection directly with a button, and a hook to receive a tape.

4. Adetachablegarment-supportingdevice provided with means for fixing it on the edge of a button, said device comprising an offset to be in contact with the button, and a hook to receive a tape.

5. The sheet-metal blank 1 having an opening 2 to receive a button, and an extension 3 for fixing the same to the button.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY F. STOWELL.

Witnesses:

ALBERT E. TRUESDALE, FAYETTE G. HICKS. 

